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Thank you for being part of the conversation.\xa0 This is Play It Forward.\xa0 Real people.\xa0 Real stories.\xa0 The struggle to Play It Forward. \xa0Episode 634 with author Ed Glaser. For decades, filmmakers worldwide have been remaking Hollywood movies in colorful ways. They've chronicled a singing and dancing Hannibal Lecter in India, star-crossed lovers aboard the doomed Nigerian ship Titanic, a Japanese expedition to the planet of the apes, and an uncivil war in Turkey between Captain America and a mobbed-up Spider-Man. Most of these films were low budget and many were unauthorized, but all of them were fantastic-and lately have begun to resurface thanks to cherry-picked YouTube clips. But why and how were they made in the first place? This book tells the little-known stories of the wily filmmakers who made an Italian 007 flick by casting Sean Connery's tradesman brother, produced a Turkish space opera by stealing a print of\xa0Star Wars\xa0for its effects footage, and transported a full-fledged Terminator to the present day-not from a post-apocalyptic future, but from the vibrant mythology of Indonesia(!) \xa0 Their stories reveal more than mere imitations; they demonstrate the fascinating ways ideas evolve as they cross borders.\xa0

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